A2
SEMINAR 5 History - key
Task 1 :
Historical
periods
Prehistorical
periods
Bronze
Age
Iron
Age
Modern
Era
Indian Indepedence Act (1947)
German invasion of Belgium
(1914)
Treaty of Westfalia (1648)
7.F
Ottoman Empire Expansion
(1522-66)
6.D
Machu Picchu built (1438–1472)
Task 3:
1. When did Lenin return home?
2. Where was Francisco Pizarro born?
3. Who did Mbande Nzinga ally with?
4. When was Joan of Arc canonized?
5. Why did Qin Shi Huang burn books?
5.B
4. Crusade initiated (AD 1202)
4.C
Qin dynasty rule (226-201 BC)
3.E
Peloponnesian war (431-404 BC)
2.A
Middle
Ages
Ancient
Period
Pharaoh Akhenaton died (1336
BC)
Neolithic Age
Task 2: 1. G
Early
Modern
Period
In 1917, assisted by the Germans, he returned home.
at Trujillo, in Estremadura, Spain
She formed an alliance with the Dutch.
She was canonized in 1920.
To ensure stability.
Task 4:
1.
What is Churchill's view of the bombing of Dresden, according to these drafts?
The bombing „should be reviewed from the point of view of our own interests”.
2. What does Churchill feel should be the target of bombing raids?
„military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone.”
3. What reasons might Churchill have had for his opposition to the bombing?
TO BE CONSIDERED „We must see to it that our attacks do not do more harm to ourselves in
the long run.”
4. What is different in the wording of the two drafts?
e.g.
bombing of German cities
x
so called “area bombing”
I am of the opinion that military objectives must henceforth be more strictly studied in our own interests
rather than that of the enemy.
X
We must see to it that our attacks do not do more harm to ourselves in the long run than they do to the
enemy’s immediate war effort.
5. The first draft of the letter was never sent. Why do you think Churchill rewrote this letter? TO BE
DISCUSSED
Task 6:
A. Henry V
A dead, his son a few months old
B describes serious trouble, not true
B. Shakespeare
C Henry V´s brother
C. Duke of Bedford
C takes the town of Le Mans
D pulls France together
D. Dauphin
E talks about Joan of Arc
E a French writer
E. Christiane de Pizan
E closed in abby for 11 years
F. Charles
F fled Paris
G. Joan of Arc
G a charismatic leader
G executed swiftly
crosses to the English (Duke John of Brittany)
Task 7: Listening transcript
Bob: So now the King of France and England is an eight month old baby.
Jo: It's a lot of responsibility for a small child.
Bob: So I suppose that's it for the war effort. Henry's dead, his son is only a few months old.
The English must have been in really serious trouble.
Jo: That's what Shakespeare tells us but it's not true. Actually things stay as they are for quite
a long time. The Duke of Bedford, Henry V's brother commands the English forces in France
and he does a pretty impressive job.
Bob: Do they actually win any battles?
Jo: They actually do. Verneuil in 1424 is a big English victory against a joint French and
Scottish force. In 1425 Bedford takes the town of Le Mans and he begins to put serious
pressure on Brittany. In 1427 Duke John of Brittany renounces his allegiance to the Dauphin
and crosses to the English side because they're so close to overrunning him. So for most of the
1420s, the English are in actually a really strong position.
Bob: I sense a "but" coming up here.
Jo: Well suddenly, right at the end of the decade everything unravels very fast. The English
are held at Orleans and then suffer a series of defeats.
Bob: Why? What's changed?
Jo: Here's the French writer Christine de Pizan giving us a hint.
Christine de Pizan: I Christine, who have wept for 11 years in a closed abbey where I have
lived ever since Charles the King's son fled, if I dare say it, in haste from Paris. Enclosed here
because of this treachery, I begin, for the first time, to laugh. A young girl of 16 years (is this
not something beyond nature?) to whom weapons seem weightless and the enemies flee
before her. And so, you English, you are checkmated. You thought you had already
conquered France and that she would be yours forever. Things have turned out differently.
Bob: She's talking about Joan of Arc.
Jo: Precisely. Now the French have the charismatic leader they need. It's enough for the
Dauphin to get himself crowned and start to pull France back together. England's allies
quickly begin to backslide against the Treaty and over the 1430s really everything comes
apart. Even though Joan is captured an executed swiftly, England is now fighting to hold on to
the 25% of France it's got, it's no longer advancing and although it's a long drawn out process
that goes on into the 1550s, it seems inevitable almost that England will now lose all its
French lands.
Task 8: 1.was 2.received 3.hoped 4.could 5.destroyed 6.married 7.encouraged
Task 9:
1. Since Anna’s attempt to seize the throne had failed / was failing, she was forced to retire from court.
2. After her husband had died, she was entering / entered a monastery.
3. She had lived / was living in the monastery, when 55-year-old Anna began serious work on Alexiad,
a 15 volume history of her family, the Comneni.
4. In her work, Anna described / had described the Crusaders from the West.
5. Her father asked Pope Urban I for help after the Turkish attacks were leaving / had left the southern
and eastern borders of the Byzantine Empire defenceless.
6. Urban II’s response was positive and the First Crusaders had arrived / arrived in Constantinople.
7. To Anna, they had appeared / appeared as uneducated barbarians.
Task 10:
1. She could/ may have expected that at her father's death she would take his place..
2. Her mother could have encouraged her to try and seize the imperial throne for him.
3. It must have been in the monastery, where 55-year-old Anna began serious work on Alexia..
4. Her father must have wanted to stop the Turkish attacks.
5. To Anna, they may / could have looked as uneducated barbarians.
Task 11:
1. had not been touched
2. were moving
3. made
5. had been practised 6. was made 7. had devastated
4.was believed